Railway passenger mileage register



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0. E. MICHAUD.

RAILWAY PASSENGER MILEAGE REGISTER.

No. 390,246. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

ONESME E. MICHAUD, OF ST. LOUS, MISSOUR-l.

RAILWAY-PASSENGER MlLEAGE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 390,246, dated October 2, 1 888.

Application tiled March 19, '1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, ONEsIME E. MICHAUD, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Railway- Passenger Mileage-Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

I have heretofore made an improvement in registers of the kind under consideration, described in my application for United States Letters Patent filed February 20, 1838, and numbered serially 264,548, and by means of which the mileages of the passengersin a railway-car are determined by a seat-adjustment and are collectively registered.

The present improvement relates to the construction referred to, and more especially to that part thereof termed the register, and it consists,substantially,in the means hereinafter set forth and claimed, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, making part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of the improved register, the section being taken on the line l l of Fig. 2, which in turn is a plan of the register mechanism, the top of the register-case being removed, and in thelower portion of the view the top part of the meehanism being removed to exhibit the mechanism beneath; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, vertical longitudinal sections on the line 3 5 of Fig. 2, and showing respectively the parts adjusted as for no registration, as for half-fare registration, and as for full-fare registration; and Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9, details, Fig. 6 being a view in perspective of one of the pawls used in rotating the ratchet-drum, Figs. 7 and 8, respectively, an end elevation and a plan showing a portion of the cam-shaft and cams, and Fig. 9 being a View in perspective, showing the escapement in part.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

Those parts of the register which are con stantly in motion as long as the car moves are driven from the car-axle, as in the previous construction, and it is necessary to show only Serial No. 267.701. (No model.)

middle pinion,f2,of the three bevel-pinions 'i' li i upon the horizontal shaft I, thereby driving the shaft Lwhose motion,in turn and by means of the pinions M3 engaging respectively with the bevel-pinion J J', effects the rotation of the cam-shaftsjj, to which the pinionsJ J are respectively attached.

The register mechanism, as before, is in duplicate, dividing on the line of the shaft h",and the right'hand half is for use when the car is traveling in one direction, and the left-hand half is for use when the car is traveling in the opposite direction. The left-hand side will be described. The cam-shaft j is provided with as many camsj, Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, as there are car-seats, and they are set around the shaft j, so that no two cams project in the same plane, substantially as in the original construction. The camshaft j rotates continuously as long as the car is traveling forward; but, as before, the cams have no duty to perform, and they encounter no obstruction in their rotation save when the car-seats are used byarate-paying passenger, but when a car-seat is occupied or appropriated by a rate-paying passenger-say by a half-rate passenger-the cam belonging to that car-seat is brought into use and the registration of the mileage of its passenger is effected in the following manner and by the follcwing described means, which constitute the features of the improvement now under consideration.

F represents the cord leading from the carseat and used in full-fare registration. It is connected with a lever, K, which is pivoted at k, and at k' jointed to an upright rod, L, which can be moved vertically in or upon suitable guides, Z. There is a similar cord, F, le- Ver K, and rod L foreach car-seat in the car.

M represents another cord leading from the car-seat and used in half-fare registration. It is connected with a lever, m, which is pivoted at m to the lever K, so that when the cord M is drawn the lever m can be turned upon its pivot m from its position of Fig. 3 into that of Fig. 4. In this downward movement the lever m encounters a projection, m2, upon the lever K, and by Continuing to draw the cord M the lever K is drawn downward into its po- XCO sition of Fig. 4. When the lever K is thus drawn downward, the following takes place: N represents a horizontally disposed lever, pivoted at n to the rod L and at u' to a verti cally-disposed rod, O. The lever N is drawn downward with the rod L and lever K, and

the projection a2 upon the lever N is thereby.

brought into the field of the cam jt belonging to that lever N and lever K, and the cam in its rotation therefore encounters it. lVhen the cam so encounters the projection nz, it operates to lift the lever N, as indicated in the right-hand portion of Fig. 4. The lifting of the lever N in turn effects the lifting of the rod O. This rod O is provided with a pawl, o, Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6,which, by reason of the interaction of the inclined part o of the rod O and the fixed part o2, is brought into engagement with the ratchet-druni P, as shown in the right-hand part of Fig.,4, when the rod O is lifted, and by reason of such engagement the ratchet-drum is rotated a certain distance-say the distance of one tooth-for every time the cam j2 encounters the lever projection/n2. The ratchet-drum is fastened to its shaft p, and by transmitting the motion of the shaft p to the train Q, Fig. 2, and thence to a dial, (not shown.) the registration of the mileage is effected, as in the original construction.

In the case of full-fare registration the cord F is used, and when the cord is drawn the lever- K is thereby drawn downward into the position of Fig. 5. This in turn causes the rod L and lever N to be drawn downward farther than when the cord M is used, and in consequence of this the-end of the lever N and the rod O are lifted farther than before, and the pawl o now acts to rotate the ratchetdrum twice as far as when the cord M is used-that is, a distance of two of the ratchet-drum teeth forevery revolution of the cam j?. The drumshaft p is therefore rotated twice as far, and the registration is correspondinglyincreased. The rod O works through any suitableguide. The pawl o has a shoulder, ot, which, when the rod O is drawn upward, encounters the edge of the rod O, and is thereby held in engagement with the ratchetdrum; butwhen therod O is moved downward the pawl can turn on its pivot o5 and pass the ratchet-drum.

The escapement mechanism.-Pivoted to the le ver N-say at the pointr-is a part which may be termed a hook, R, which is adapted to turn upward and downward upon the point r. The hook is jointed at r. The horizontal part r ofthe hook is provided with the projection r3. The vertical part of* of the hook works through the guides 1'5 r6, and the point rl of the hook is adapted to engage, when the hook is lifted,with a bar, S. The bar S extends across the register from its front to its back, and it is shaped to form, or is provided with, the arms s s, by means of which the bar is pivoted on a bearing, s', so that the bar S can be lifted and lowered through the agency of the hook R. The action of this mechanism is as follows: The cam j2 in its rotation encounters the pro= jection r3 slightly in advance of the projection n2. j The hook Rand bar S are thereby lifted. The bar S, by means of the spring s?, Fig. 9, attached to an arm, T, which at t is pivoted to the bearing s and at t has jointed to it the dog t2. The mode of attaching the bar S to the arm T is as follows: The arm T is provided with the pin t3, which projects through a slot, s, inthe bar-arm s. The spring s2 and stL is fastened to the arm s, and its free end S5 bears upward against the pin i3. When the half-fare cord is drawn, the spring s2 is strong enough not to yield and the arm T is lifted with the bar S, and the dog t2 thereby drawn upward out of engagement with the ratchet-drum ratchet P, leaving the ratchetdrum free to be rotated by the pawl o. The dog t is provided with a shoulder, t4, which, when the dog is lifted, encounters the stop i5, and the upward movement of the dog is thereby limited, but when the full-fare cord is drawn the spring s2 yields, after the dog encounters the stop t5, and the bar S is drawn upward above the outer part of the arm T, by which movement the pin t3 comes to the lower end of the slot s3. As soon as the hook R is released, the spring t acts to draw the arm T downward and to bring the dog t2 into engagement again with the ratchet P, as shown in the left-hand portion ofFig. 5, and the ratch et-drum is thereby prevented from being carried around too far under the impulse of the pawl o. When the bar S is drawn upward,as described, above the arm T, the spring s? c0- acts with the spring t in bringing the dog t2 into engagement with the ratchet.

Another feature of the construction is the stop mechanism E. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent a horizontallydisposed bar adapted to be moved longitudinally toward and from the rod O. The rod L is at each side thereof provided with an inclined arm, Z5, which engages in a slot, e, in the bar E, so that when the half-fare cord is drawn the movement of the rod L has no effect upon the bar E, and the rod O is free to be lifted until the extension o5 of the rod O encounters the bar E, whereupon the rod O is arrested. This is arranged so that the rod O is raised sufficiently to cause the ratchetdrum to be rotated a distance of one tooth; but when the full-fare cord is used the rod L, through its arm Z5, acts to draw the bar E out of the field of the rod O, whereupon the rod AO can be lifted until the rod-extension o5 encounters the stop o1", which is so arranged that the rod O, when it is arrested by the stop o1", israised sufficiently to cause the ratchet-drum to be rotateda distance of two teeth.

To relieve the friction,the cams are each, at the pointat `which the cam encounters the projections r 91.2, provided with a roller, as"

shown.

l. The combination of the rod L, the lever N, projection a", the cam-shaftj,and cam j2,as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the rod L, the lever IOO IIO

N, projection n2, the camshaft and cam, the rod O, the pawl o, and the ratchet-drum P, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the rod O, the inclined part o', vertically upon said rod, the iXed part 0* upon the frame, the pawl o, and the ratchetdrum P,substantially as described.

4. The combination ofthe rod L, the lever N, having the projection a2, the rod O, parts ol 02, the pawl o, and the ratchet-drum P, said parts o 02, respectively, being vertically upon said rod O and fixed upon the frame, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the halfiare cord, the levers m K, and the rod L, said lever K being provided with the projection mi, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the hook R, the bar S, the spring si, the arm T, the dog t2, and the ratchet P, substantially as described.

7. The combination ofthe slotted bar S, the

bearing s', the arm T, the pin hand thc spring s?, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the slotted bar S, the bearing s', the arm T, the pin 153, the spring` si, the dog,r t2, having the shoulder t, the stop t5, and the spring t, substantially as described.

9. The combination of the rod L, the lever N, projection n2, thc hook R, the projection 1*, the camshaft and cam, the rod O and pawl o, the ratchet-drum P, and ratchet P', attached to said drum, the bar S, the arm T, and the dog t, substantially as described.

l0. The combination of the rod L, inclined arm Z5, the slotted bar E, and the rod O, having the extension osubstantiall y as described.

fitness my hand this 17th day of March, lSSS.

ONESLME E. MICHAUD.

Witnesses:

C. D. MOODY, C. C. LOGAN. 

